Arab Racism

bismillah
assalamu alaikum

A few days ago I was with an Arab brother who while talking mentioned something that showed he has a slight dislike of black people. This came to me as no surprise as I am an Arab and I know how alot of Arabs think. However, I decided to not let this one go without the proper verbal beating it deserved. He told me he agrees that all people are the same, however people from central and South Africa never did have any historic achievements and have always been a backwards people whilst the rest of the world at least had a period where they achieved something.

First and foremost there is nothing in the Quraan and Sunnah that says there are any distinctions between white people and black people. On the contrary, in the prophet's last sermon he (pbuh) said;
""All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white (person) has no superiority over a black (person) nor a black has any superiority over a white except by piety and good action."

Also Allah (swt) said:
"And mankind is naught but a single nation."
Holy Quran 2:213

Although this should be enough to silence any Muslim's racist seed, I will not stop there to make you realise how silly that idea is.

I was told that the black people didn't achieve anything throughout history. Although that point is wrong in itself, the Central and South Africans had several great empires, let me ask just for the sake of argument; why is that? Is it because of a gene in the black people that makes them unsuccessful? If so, then that would directly imply that white people, who did achieve something in history (although that is wrong in itself and I will get to that later) have a gene that makes them successful. But are we?? Let us look at the Europeans. When did they achieve anything in the past? You have two periods where the Europeans actually achieved something, in the ancient times under the Roman Empire and the Greek Empire and the more modern times after the Reneissance and the removal of the tyranical Church. Let's take this step by step. First of all in ancient history the one thing that the Romans and the Greeks had in common is that they had (to a degree) a democratic system in place, and they achieved something with that. The rest of Europe? The rest of Europe were a bunch of barbarian nomad nobodies. The Saxons? The Celts? The Goths? The Vikings? What did the rest of Europe do? Absolutly nothing! And then we have the Reniessance. It was a period, again, when relative freedom after the oppression of the Church was gradually being given to the people. It was a time when the leadership and the governing body of the Church are removed and replaced by a more lenient and independant leadership. In both cases we see the effect of the governing body on the achievements the people are bringing forth.

Now the Arabs, what were they before Islam? They were a bunch of warring desert tribes half of which were controled by the Romans and the other half by the Persians. After Islam came, nay, after Islam was implemented, the Arabs united and fought and conquered both their previous masters, the Romans and the Persians. It is when Islam ruled them that they actually became of any significance and it is the day that Islamic rule left them that they went back to becoming several warring tribes ruled by foreign masters, be that the US, France or Britain.

I say it alot and I will say it again. The people are a reflection of the governing body. If a certain people were not achieving then it is not because they were created a lowly creature. That is not only incredibly stupid, but also a great haraam. All people are the same as we are all the children of Adam and Eve.

If a certain people were not achieving, ask yourself "why?" Are they not humans like the rest of us? If you claim that they do not achieve because of their colour or any biological matter, then you are claiming that it is a genetic matter. If so, then why aren't the rest of humanity failing as well? And if it is indeed genetic, then how come we succeed at times and fail at other times? The most obvious example are the Arabs who succeeded at one point of their history and the rest was utter garbage. It does not make sense, it is absolutly silly, and most importantly it is haraam! And if the white people have a "gene of success", then why aren't all white people successful? Take Western Europe and Eastern Europe. The only thing I can think of is that Western Europe has a more democratic governmant than the East. And if today the Eastern Europeans are growing, it is because they finally let go of the shackles of Communism. Again, back to the same point; the governing body!

wassalam